How can I limit the scope of executable commands a linux user can run?
For example, I only want user to be able to run the ls command and nothing else. If tried, for example to run cat, linux would ...

I need to get all mac Addresses from my network-card.
So i use nmap from Debian, combined with PHP.
But, without root privilege, this only gives me the IP address and status from a target. With root ...

I am trying to use snmp to query a directory listing. I have added the exec line to snmp.conf ("exec list /bin/ls /pathtodirectory") and restarted the service. When I perform an snmp walk for the exec ...

I have a script that really only needs to be run one time on a server, i.e. at deployment time, but figured it would be best to have Puppet manage it. The script remaps several legacy user id's that ...

I am trying to launch a java process as a server and then might periodically need to restart/kill it at certain times. Since I use a shell script to launch java jvm(to build classpath), I thought of ...